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Political Economy Analysis to Identify Champions for Freshwater Policy Change and Conservation of Aquatic Biodiversity

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Category
Technical Reports
Publisher
ISeT Nepal
Contributor
Ajaya Dixit, Ashutosh Shukla, Anustha Shrestha, Binod Bhattarai, Kopila Wagle, Deep Narayan Shah (PhD), Hari Dhungana (PhD), Bijita Thapa, Anurag Pokharel, Sawar Basnet Thapa, Srimanjari Tamrakar, Yogendra Subedi, Ananta Tamang, Mohan Das Manandhar, Niraj K.C, Prakash Dev Pant (PhD), Rajan Karna, Rojen Bajracharya, Sreya Gyawali, Silanath Jha, Sudip Bhaju, Sujeev Shakya and Rabi Wenju
Rights
USAID Nepal
Language
English
Content
This political economic analysis (PEA) examines the challenges facing freshwater biodiversity in Nepal’s Mahakali, Karnali and West Rapti (MKWR) river basins. It locates these concerns within the prevailing paradigm of water development and management highlighting the context of natural resources use in a fluid political and institutional processes in the region. In particular, the fact that the aspirations of the people in the basins for socio-economic development are rising at the very time that their exposure to climatic change is increasing leaves them vulnerable to a multitude of risks. The prevailing paradigm has influenced the narrative of Nepal’s hydropower development and is intertwined with the complexities emerging in the MKWR river basins, especially in those areas where plans have been made to invest in the development of large-scale hydropower projects. Because these projects are largely still in the planning, design and initial phases of construction, within the MKWR river basins themselves, many rivers and their tributaries are still flowing free. The planned hydropower and inter-basin water transfer projects in Nepal, however, are likely to change this context and will have implications for the MKWR river basins’ freshwater biodiversity.

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